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On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.
Jennifer M. Piscopo, Shauna L. Shames
The FDA has approved an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist.
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.
Claude S. Fischer
Richard Beck's new book on the moral panic over child abuse in the 1980s.
Rebecca Onion
"She didn't believe in God. But she believed. Optimism was her faith."
Judith Levine
On the reissue of Linda Rosenkrantz's Talk.
Maggie Doherty
For female travel writers, it's a risk.
Jessa Crispin
History really matters in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Nancy F. Cott
Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.
Today, marriage was affirmed as a constitutional right for same-sex couples in the United States.
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Trends in American Opinion
One report on purported elder abuse describes victims as dependent captives “in highly sexualized environments.”
On Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.
Diana Arterian
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